Class of 2015 PG Jake Silpe commits to Penn basketball

 

Have no fear Penn basketball, the class of 2015 will soon be here.

Coach Jerome Allen added another solid piece to his current crop of rising high school seniors, securing a commitment from Cherry Hill East High School (N.J.) point guard Jake Silpe, according to Silpe’s twitter account.

Silpe tweeted on Wednesday afternoon that he had committed to Penn and would be in Wharton.

City of Basketball Love described the 6-foot-2 point guard as “everything you want in a point guard.” While COBL touts his passing ability, The Recruit Scoop also thinks highly of his shooting ability.

Silpe was recruited by most of the schools in the Ivy and Patriot League, but Allen and his staff had some help in getting the highly sought-after guard: Penn commit and AAU teammate Jule Brown.

Brown, who was the second of five recruits in the class of 2015, said as soon as he committed that he would try and convince Silpe to join him at Penn and it appears to have worked.

While Brown, a small forward from Lower Merion High School (Pa.), is considered one of the stronger pieces in the class, Silpe makes the class look even better, joining sharp-shooting guard Jackson Donahue and 6-foot-11 forward Collin McManus, both from Northfield Mount Herman (Mass.). Hebrew Academy (Fla.) guard Morris Esformes was Penn’s first commit in the class.

Allen’s new class may not be the ‘Fab Five’ but they certainly seem like a marked improvement over prior classes, displaying the staff’s ability to compete for top recruits within an improving Ivy League.

The Quakers are coming off a disappointing 8-20 season, the team’s second straight year with single-digit victories. The team loses five graduating seniors while three underclassmen left the program, leaving just nine returning letterwinners.

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